The_Rambler_1959-05-18

              STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
FARMINGDALE, L.I., N.Y.
VOL. XXIX - No. IX May 18, 1959
FROSH WEEKEND STARTS FRIDAY
AGGIES OPEN DOORS
Open House, SUATI's 40th,
was held on May 1 and 2. The
various departments worked
diligently on their displays to
show to the public. Over twenty-two
thousand people visited the
campus during Open House.
The Advertising Art and De-sign
display consisted chiefly of
student art work. There was
some professional work included
in the display. The art work
was representative of the cours-es
taken by the AAD students
such as design, cartooning, fig-ure
and freehand drawing, tech-nical
and advertising illustra-tion.
In the afternoons there
were demonstrations in air-brush,
eechnical illustration, let-tering,
and portrait painting that
was done by the students to
show the public some of the
skills acquired by the AAD's.
On Friday, many agricultural
schools came to Open House.
The Agricultural Department
displayed all of their farm ma-chinery
and tools. They had
a tractor driving contest and
a show, which displayed all or
their live stock. During the
day, there was a display in the
Poultry Building on soils and
types of soil on Long Island.
A feature in the building was
the incubation of little chicks.
Open House on Saturday start-ed
off quite gloomy with some
rain and cold, but the agricul-tural
department didn't let that
stop them. The new $500,000
Dairy Lab was considered a
show stopper. In the lab there
was a cooling machine, which
cooled the milk and then went
on to a type of machine which
took undesirable articles out of
the milk. The pasteurizing ma-chine
was next to the homogen-izing
machine and a wide line
of pipes which cooled the milk.
From the pipes, the milk was
passed on to the bottling ma-chine.
They also had an ice
cream machine by which stu-dents
hope to be able to make
and sell their own ice cream
on campus.
The Air Conditioning, Heating,
and Refrigeration unit displayed
lockerd plants that were design-ed
by the students during the
second quarter of this school
year. There was a lot of work
students had done such as cal-clations,
notebooks, and varios
units with explanations. A one-pipe
steam system and two-pipe
hot water system were shown..
There were also different types
of motors, warm air and hot
water zoning, refrigeration labs
with an evaporator with plastic
pipes to enable the visitors to
see how it worked.
The Link Trainer was an in-teresting
part of the Aircraft
Operations exhibit for Open
House. The AO exhibit could
be considered to be divided into
mechanical -and technical as-pects.
The technical consisted
of weather, navigation, maps,
diagrams, weights and balances,
while the mechanical portion
featured engines, magnetos and
jets, running up a nine-cylinder
engine, two planes and various
types of systems of planes.
The Business Technology dis-play,
which was divided into
its three curricllums, TAA, TSA,
TSI, was located in Conklin
Hall. The TAA had a mock
office set up" showing some of
the various fields of study, such
as accounting and drafting.
Along with the TAA exhibit was
a great deal of information on
NOMA. Textbooks used, stu-dent
work, charts, and equip-ment
were also a part of the
TAA exhibit.
The TSA exhibit consisted of
a variety of student work; note-books,
folders, sketches, and
charts. There were lists of the
many advertising agencies in
this area. The students were
busy working the business ma-chines,
such as the IBM elec-tric
typewriter and Gray Audo-graph,
that were a part of the
exhibit.
TSI also featured student
work. The room was divided
to show the different fields of
work and courses available to
the students. The exhibit show-ed
such courses as aircraft and
automotive, engineering, con-struction
architect, and blue
prints and texts utilized by
TSI's.
The members of the Chemical
Technology curriculum were in-volved
in doing regular-type lab
experiments as part of their
Open House exhibit. There were
students doing quantitative and
qualitative experiments. In one
of the labs, seniors were mak-ing
rubber fingers and gloves,
coating metals with plastics,
electroplating, and making gas
analyses. All these combined
eo make the CT exhibit a very
interesting one.
The lieiieral EUucatioii E.\hibit Was One of the Most E.\teiisive
Every year the Freshman
Board of Governors presents the
Freshman Weekend. This year
is no exception; there will be
a Weekend, but there will be
a world of difference between
this one and any other ever pre-sented.
This year's Frosh Week-end
will be the ultimate in ac-tivity,
enjoyment, and happy
mennories at an unbelievable
low price. After reading the
schedule for the weekend and
hearing the price, you will be
able to see the value that is
being offered.
The Frosh Weekend will pre-sent
two oxciting and memor-able
events, both of which
should be a must for every stu-dent
on this campus. On Fri-day
night, May 22, you will
dance on the patio of the Shore
Country Club at Long Beach
from 9 P.M. 'til 1 A.M. The
fact that the dance is a semi-formal
will by no means dis-tract
from the memorable at-mosphere
of the first evening
of a weekend full to the brim
with enjoyment. Tickets can be
obtained from any member of
the Board for only six dollars.
Ordinarily, on the night fol-lowing
the Freshman Prom, you
would expect to have a small
insignificant activity just to give
you something to do for the eve-ning.
Well, hang on to your
hat, because the Freshman
Board has something planned
that is unprecidented and un-surpassed
by any Frosh Board
in the history of the school.
A moonlight cruise up the
Hudson River; the biggest event
of the entire weekend. This ac-tivity,
although being held on
a ship that is exclusively for
the use of SUATI, will cost only
six dollars.
As if the price of the tickets
wasn't low enough, the Frosh
Board is offering combination
tickets for both the events for
only ten dollars.
The weekend will draw to a
close on Sunday afternoon at
Jones Beach. The Frosh Board
will provide free refreshments
for everyone.
It's easy to see that we are
in for a tremendous Spring
Weekend.
Don't be left out; there is a
limited supply of tickets. If you
haven't gotten yours now, then
hurry over to the main lobby of
the Tech. Building at noon time
or to the Dining Hall and get
them. We'll be looking for you
at al Ithe fun-packed activities
of Freshman Weekend of 1959.
REMEMBER, tickets are lim-ited;
so don't waste any time
in buying them. Curfew; Fri-day,
2:30 A.M. — Saturday,
2:00 A.M.
First Spring Assembly a Success
The Construction Technology
department had its display sep-arated
into the two classifica-tions;
Building Construction and
Highway and Bridge Construc-tion.
The BC portion of the
exhibit had a model house which
was an actual house. There were
model houses buile to scale from
plans drawn up by students.
Structual drafting and strength
materials were a part of this
display too.
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College Choir Under the Direction of Mr. Winterspoon
Highlights First Assembly
The first assembly of this year was entitled "A Salute to
Spring" and was a tribute to Broadway musicals such as "South
Pacific" and "My Fair Lady."
Dean Allee opened the as-sembly
with a short talk on the
future of our assemblies. After
this, he introduced Dr. Ore and
the S.U.A.T.I. choir.
The first group of songs play-ed
by the band, led by Dr. Ore,
was from "South Pacific." The
selections played included "One
Enchanted Evening," "I'm As
Corny As Kansas In August,"
"Bali-Hai," and "There Is Noth-ing
Like a Dame."
Following the selections from
"South Pacific," Mr. Wither-spoon
accompanied the Institute
Choir in two songs. The first
was Jerome Kern's "Smoke
Gets in Your Eyes," featuring
Eve Lehrman, a D.H. Senior, as
soloist. The whole choir then
sang Rodgers and Hamerstein's
"We Kissed In a Shadow."
The College Dance Band, di-rected
by Dr. Ore, followed the
choir in playing "Sugar Blues."
Phil Miller, who was the fea-tured
soloist, did a wonderful
job on the trumpet. The Band
then played "ABC Boogie."
The next feature was Mary
Rodites, a D.H. Frosh, who sang
"Embraceable You" and "Rock-
A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie
Melody."
The S.U.A.T.I. Majorettes, do-ing
a routine to "When the
Saints Go Marching In", fol-lowed
Mary in the program.
The final selection was from
"My Fair Lady." The songs
played by the band included
"Get Me To the Church On
Time," "With a Little Bit of
Love," "I've Grown Accostomed
To Your Face," and "I Could
Have Danced All Night."
Our first assembly of this
this year was very good. We
thank Dr. Ore, Mr. Witherspoon,
the members of the band and
choir, and anyone else who took
part in or helped to make this
assembly a success!
Bulletin:
Ruth Hansen elected Rose
Queen of SUATI on May 13.
Woody Comes to LI.
On the night of June 12, the
Class of 1959 will present its
Senior Prom at the Fairlanes
Ballroom in New Hyde Park.
The Senior Board is pleased to
announce that the music for this
memorable occasion will be pro-vided
by the popular Woody
Herman and his fifteen-piece
orchestra.
Bids for the prom will be $8.50
per couple and may be obtained
from any member of the Senior
Board. They will also be on
sale at lunch time each day in
the lobby of the Technical Build-ing
and in the dining hall at
Knapp Hall.
The Board has gone to con-siderable
expense to obtain
Woody Herman and his "old
woodchoppers" and hopes that
the prom will be well attended.
Both freshmen and seniors are
welcome. Do come, for this
promises to be one of the best
dances of the season and cer-tainly
a night seniors will look
back on with fond memories.
Councfl Dines
On Monday, June 1, at 7:30
p.m., the Student Council Rec-ognition
Dinner will be held in
Knapp Hall. This dinner, which
will honor active SUATI seniors,
has been planned by a recogni-tion
committee of Student Coun-cil.
The committee was orig-inally
set up to discover new
ways in which to recognize ac-time
members of the entire stu-dent
body of SUATI.
Members of administration
ai^e invited to this honorary din-ner
which will honor Student
Council members.
The purpose of the dinner may
be considered twofold; first, as
a form of recognition of mem-bers
of Student Council as a
whole, and second, for recogni-tion
of the most active seniors
in Council.